43 h. ago ‘The law is the same for everyone’: Macron addresses Le Pen verdict for first time and criticises threats against judges – Europe live

French president says ‘the judiciary is independent’ following threats made against judges in case against former French far-right leader The French government expects President Trump’s tariffs to be in the range of between 20-25%, said government spokeswoman Sophie Primas on Wednesday.“They risk being pretty powerful. People are speaking of tariffs between 20 and 25 percent,” Primas told reporters. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Detained Tufts student taken from Massachusetts before judge ordered her kept there, government says

U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts

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59 h. ago Outrage after hot mic picks up school board making VERY rude comment about disabled student's dad

A Massachusetts school board was caught on a hot mic making rude comments about a student's dad as he advocated for his disabled child's rights.

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59 h. ago Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case must continue in New Jersey

Ruling does not guarantee Columbia University protester will be moved out of a detention facility in LouisianaA federal judge has ruled that the legal battle over Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation should continue to play out in New Jersey, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to transfer the Columbia University protester’s case to Louisiana.In a written decision on Tuesday, the US district judge Michael Farbiarz in Newark said the jurisdiction over the case should remain in New Jersey since Khalil was being held there at the time his lawyers filed their habeas corpus petition. The judge described the government’s argument otherwise as “unpersuasive”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Student targeted by masked immigration officials can’t be deported without order

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by masked immigration officials as she walked along a street

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7 d. ago Judge says he will order government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike

A federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen’s Houthis

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7 d. ago Israel parliament defies protests to pass law tightening grip over judges

Opposition parties say political control of appointments will make judges subject to politicians and undermine democracyIsrael’s parliament has passed a law expanding elected officials’ power to appoint judges, in defiance of a years-long protest against Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to drive through judicial changes.The approval of the bill, which opposition parties say will make judges subject to the will of politicians, comes as Netanyahu’s government is locked in a standoff with the supreme court over its attempts to dismiss the attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara and Ronen Bar, the head of the internal security agency. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Lawyer for Turkish student at Tufts University detained by feds calls for government to produce her

A lawyer for a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University who was detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents has filed an emergency request for the government to produce her

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8 d. ago Furious Turkish student in hijab filmed being detained by ICE as she went to break Ramadan fast

Rumeysa Ozturk, who is currently studying at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was swarmed by a group of individuals near her off-campus home on Tuesday.

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8 d. ago Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

A lawyer for a Turkish national who is a doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by federal agents without explanation

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9 d. ago Judge orders a June trial for US government's felony case against Boeing

A federal judge in Texas has set a June trial date for the U.S. government’s years-old conspiracy case against Beoing for misleading regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people

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1 week ago ‘Nazis got better treatment’: Appeals court judges skeptical of Trump arguments to deport Venezuelans

Judges question whether government can deport alleged Tren de Aragua members without chance to challenge removal

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1 week ago Trump asks supreme court to halt ruling ordering the rehiring of federal workers

Appeal argues US judge William Alsup can’t force executive branch to rehire some 16,000 probationary employeesUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration asked the supreme court on Monday to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.The emergency appeal argues that the judge can’t force the executive branch to rehire some 16,000 probationary employees. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive information at US agencies

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing people’s private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management

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1 week ago Arizona’s execution pitted experts against politicians. Experts lost | Austin Sarat

The governor dismissed an ex-judge studying the death penalty in the state and failed to heed a leading voice on the matter. It’s no surpriseOn Wednesday, 19 March, Arizona executed Aaron Gunches by lethal injection. As ABC News reports, he was put to death for “kidnapping and killing 40-year-old Ted Price by shooting him four times in the Arizona desert”.Gunches’s case was unusual in many ways, not least that he stopped his legal appeals and volunteered to be executed, then changed his mind before changing it again. His execution was scheduled to be carried out almost two years ago. It was put on hold when the Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, commissioned an independent review of the state’s death penalty procedures after a series of botched executions. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Judge snaps at Trump administration lawyers for ‘gaslighting’ over trans military ban

Government lawyers are challenging an order from Judge Ana Reyes that temporarily blocks Trump’s directive

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2 w. ago Federal judge blocks DOGE from accessing Social Security personal information for now

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from Social Security Administration systems that hold personally identifiable data on millions of Americans

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2 w. ago ‘We don’t know how any of this will play out’: what’s next for US deportees in El Salvador

Political scientist Mneesha Gellman on the deportees’ fates, dire prison conditions and Bukele-Trump parallelsThe Trump administration has flown 238 Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison that human rights groups say is designed to disappear people.Despite a judge’s order temporarily blocking the move, the US government flew more than 200 men that it had accused of gang membership to the “Terrorism Confinement Center”, or Cecot – a draconian mega-prison that has become central to the promise of the Salvadorian president, Nayib Bukele, promise to rid his country of crime. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump says he wouldn’t defy courts despite claims he ignored deportation order

Administration accused of deliberately flouting James Boasberg’s ruling to halt deportation of 200 immigrantsDonald Trump has repeated his declaration that he would not defy a court ruling, even as controversy swirls about whether his administration has already ignored several of them following a spate of negative judgments that threaten to block his governing agenda.Anger among the president’s supporters has been simmering against a federal judge, James Boasberg, who ordered a halt to the deportation of more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants last weekend. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump live updates: Democrats split over Republican plan to avert government shutdown ahead of midnight deadline

Democrats warn against GOP’s ‘dismantling of government’ as judges strike down president’s mass purge of the workforce

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